Abstract This paper explores how digital photography – the practice of taking pictures and sharing them via social media – can give rise to representational politics. These politics are pronounced when disadvantaged people and places are the objects of digital representation, as they become (dis)empowered by being implicated in the affective economy of difference. Empirically, we examine the representational practices that Singaporean voluntourists, and companies that organise overseas humanitarian projects, engage in. We highlight how their motivations for engaging with these projects can be obfuscated by the opportunity to generate influence on Instagram, which can then shape the practice of popular humanitarianism. In particular, it can cause encounters with difference to be (cu)rated, influence to be (re)produced, and representation to therefore be (de)valued.

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“为‘克’做这件事？大众人道主义的代表性政治

摘要 本文探讨了数码摄影——拍摄照片并通过社交媒体分享它们的做法——如何产生代表性政治。当处于不利地位的人和地方成为数字代表的对象时，这些政治就很明显了，因为他们被卷入差异的情感经济而变得（被剥夺）了权力。根据经验，我们研究了新加坡志愿者和组织海外人道主义项目的公司所参与的代表性实践。我们强调了他们参与这些项目的动机如何被在 Instagram 上产生影响的机会所掩盖，进而影响实践流行的人道主义。特别是，它可以导致不同的遭遇被（cu）评价，影响被（重新）产生，